Working on setting up the new hierarchy for SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606. As part of installation process ,it ask for prerequisite downloads folder and for it ,I can either choose Download Required files (it will download from internet )or Use previously downloaded files (download the files on any machine that has internet access and copy the files to your SCCM server). I choose download required files from internet as my server is has internet access through proxy IP. After a while ,download of prereq’s failed ,which lead me to look at ConfigMgrSetup.log for the error details. Log (ConfigMgrSetup.log) …
Author: Eswar Koneti
Long ago ,I did step by step guide series on how to Install MBAM 2.5 SP1 integration with SCCM Configmgr 2012/Current Branch . In that guide,I have used MBAM server which has SQL server and MBAM components installed on local server and integrate MBAM with Configmgr 2012 server. Few days ago ,I was trying to install MBAM 2.5 SP1 and integrate with SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606 in my lab. In this setup ,my requirement was different .I do not want to install SQL Server on MBAM server (local) instead ,use existing SQL instance (remote) to install MBAM Databases and…
Great news for all us who are in SCCM Configmgr world. Microsoft just released 3 baseline builds for SCCM configmgr 1606 in October 2016 i.e Current branch ,LTSB and Tech review which means, you no longer need to use old baseline build V1511 to upgrade /Install your SCCM hierarchy from SCCM 2012 and install the Current branch updates using updates and servicing method. In previous days ,If you want to migrate /Install new version of SCCM Configmgr current branch (V1606 for now) ,you must use the baseline build V1511 with supported ADK version of V1507 or V1511 and then install…
Working on fine tuning collections to get the clients (DEV,UAT,PROD etc) from Active Directory based on OU for reporting purpose .Reporting can be either application deployment or software update compliance or anything that you want .In my case, all the OU’s in Active Directory are created based on BU( Business Unit) and business unit most likely with country name in OU. Lets take example of OU structure like below in my Active Directory. With the above OU structure ,I want to create collection that list all computers from PROD/DR OU for each Business Unit (Hong kong,Singapore,India etc) . Parent…
Recently I was going through some of the Microsoft Ignite 2016 sessions that are related to windows 10,Intune ,MBAM ,UE-V ,Power BI ,Server 2016 and configuration manager which are uploaded to YouTube. During my surfing ,I found lot of videos on these technologies . So ,in this blog post, I will share the sessions that are related to Configuration Manager ,Windows 10, Intune, MBAM ,UE-V and Power BI which will help you to go through and take notes for future reference. Hope you will find them useful too. Join Windows 10 in Azure AD in five easy steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CorjRbc7ME Troubleshoot…
For those of you who didn’t make it to Microsoft Ignite 2016 (September 26–30, 2016, Atlanta, GA ) this year or who attended and they want to recall it ,Microsoft have uploaded some of the sessions (for now ) to YouTube channel and they upload most of them for offline watching. All the previous years ,Microsoft used to upload the videos on channel 9 but for this year ,they have made it available on YouTube channel. These sessions are created as playlist based its content type security ,mobility ,deployment,developer etc. Watch videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhJmfAGQ5K81XQ8_od1iTg/playlists Get the session catalog from…
Recently ,I worked on on a SCCM project and as initial step ,it was mandatory to bring all the desktops and servers (where ever it was missing) into SCCM with Client installed. Though ,there are different client installation methods available to install SCCM Client , one of the most widely used client installation method is Client startup script deployed via group policy. Jason Sandys (MVP) created nice Client Startup Script (group policy) that install configmgr client agent during the system initial boot up. If you want to achieve good client success rate ,would strongly recommend to look into script and…
Microsoft releasing the technical preview updates for SCCM Configmgr every month as part of ongoing commitment to quality and innovation .These technical preview updates will help to test in lab environment and report feedback to Microsoft before they made General Available (current Branch).To see these preview updates in your Configmgr console,you must have the base version of SCCM Configmgr Technical preview 5 (not applicable to current branch).These Technical Preview updates are intended for use in a lab environment. For more information about technical preview and updates, please refer https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt595861.aspx? Today,28th September 2016 ,Microsoft released latest technical preview update 1609 (YYMM)…